When thinking about European versions of Silicon Valley, three cities come to mind — London, Berlin and Amsterdam. All three are unique and ready to rival each other to be the most fruitful in promoting new business and the most successful in acquiring funding. Recently, however, the amount of venture...
A trailer for a new 50 Shades of Grey film has been released shortly before Valentine's Day featuring a surprise protagonist. Rowan Atkinson stars in the BlamCo trailer as billionaire Christian Grey. The impressionable Anastasia Steele sees her life change forever when she meets the handsome/ kinky business man. Watch the full trailer...
The Martian's space botany theme has been affirmed this week after US astronaut Scott Kelly confirmed that a zinnia plant had flowered on the International Space Station (ISS). Ridley Scott's film, due for UK release on February 8, is based on space botanist Mark Watney's incredible survival on Mars where he was able to grow...
New Oxfam research has revealed runaway inequality has created a world where 62 people own as much as the poorest half of the world's population. The report, published ahead of the annual gathering of the world's financial and political elites in Davos, found the wealth of the poorest half of the...
Set across two floors of a stunning structure just off the famous Bund area, David Beckham propped up the bar of the Haig Club Shanghai sporting designer stubble and a scooped up retro quiff as a guestlist of actors, actresses and models filtered in to taste what Beckham himself has...
The cast of Friends have confirmed they will reunite for a two-hour special to be aired in the US on Sunday 21 February. The entire crew - Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry - are reported to be signed up to the one-off episode, which...
Erwin Schrödinger was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who, amongst other esteemed achievements, was most noted for his sympathies to the scientific layman. In an attempt to demystify the secrets of quantum physics, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and parallel universes he developed a theory named Schrödinger's cat, in which a cat...
Frequent travellers along the East Coast Mainline could find themselves out of pocket more than any other rail travellers in the country, it has been revealed. A new study has found that all five of the top five worst value-for-money journeys lay on the East Coast line, currently operated jointly...
The US powerball jackpot has reached a record high of $1.4 billion after 18 rollovers dating back to early November. Two winners shared a record £66 million National Lottery jackpot on Saturday in the UK after 14 consecutive rollovers found no winner. Despite the prize being shared, if each ticket is held by...